Punishing straight-up industrial metal with thick and heavy guitar riffs, with dual vocal yells over top of a squelching and slithering layer of noise and electronics. This will kick you and your mother's asses all over into next Tuesday! Catch the new wicked video for "Greed" on the D-Trash site.
"Very rarely are a band able to amalgamate such diverse musical tastes as industrial, metal/hardcore and punk rock into something passable, let alone actually enjoyable. Surprisingly though, Switzerland’s Matamachete manage to pull each of these influences together on Tanin No Kao with surprising results. While one may expect music of this sort to wallow in the uninspired, bland territory dominated by PVC metal bands such as Mindless Self Indulgence, with its overall tenacity and venom, Tanin No Kao is firmly based on the aggression and confrontational atmosphere of late ’90s hardcore. This produces what could very well be the strongest proof of evolution beyond Refused’s innovative influx of synthesised interludes and crisp, clinical guitars to hardcore. When melded to Sick Of It All’s beat-heavy attack, it makes for a relentlessly furious affair that is unexpectedly progressive." -EXCLAIM.CA
"With their mixture of hard drum 'n' bass beats, aggressive guitars, and punk-inspired shouts (often in Japanese, no less), Swiss group Matamachete are one of the more interesting things to hit the industrial scene of late. "Modus Operandi" opens their newest album with a violent blast pummeling breakbeats, chunky metal guitar riffs, and atonal yelps, something like what you'd imagine Mindless Self Indulgence would sound like if you replaced the juvenile humor with some real punk nihilism. Title track "Tanin No Kao" is brutal but funky, Japanese lyrics barked through a vocoder over gargantuan guitar chords and a rumbling hip-hop rhythm, and "Greed" can't quite decide of it's sexy or angry, pairing a throbbing bass and dirty synth sequence with mean guitars and throat-tearing shrieks. For all its intensity and barely controlled rage, this album has its lighter moments, too. "Brand of the Beast" and "Count Me Out" cross new school metal grooves with hip-hop breaks and a cleaner vocal delivery; they're big and brutal, but there's a funky vibe that's infectious and fun. "Freedom of Choice" actually slows down the electronics to a tempo approaching mellow, though the staccato vocals and sharp guitar riffs give the song its requisite edge, and "Few Things to Share" is one of the album's slowest tracks as well as its darkest, vocals snarled over a languid but oppressive rhythm section. With an aesthetic that draws on aggressive breakbeat and jungle rhythms as well as unapologetically metal guitar riffs, this is an album that manages to appeal in equal measure to drum 'n' bass and hard rock fans; it will especially appeal to fans of the new breed of industrial metal represented by groups like Rabbit Junk. Check out Matamachete online at www.matamachete.com ." -REGENMAG.COM
"With their mixture of hard drum 'n' bass beats, aggressive guitars, and punk-inspired shouts (often in Japanese, no less), Swiss group Matamachete are one of the more interesting things to hit the industrial scene of late. "Modus Operandi" opens their newest album with a violent blast pummeling breakbeats, chunky metal guitar riffs, and atonal yelps, something like what you'd imagine Mindless Self Indulgence would sound like if you replaced the juvenile humor with some real punk nihilism. Title track "Tanin No Kao" is brutal but funky, Japanese lyrics barked through a vocoder over gargantuan guitar chords and a rumbling hip-hop rhythm, and "Greed" can't quite decide of it's sexy or angry, pairing a throbbing bass and dirty synth sequence with mean guitars and throat-tearing shrieks. For all its intensity and barely controlled rage, this album has its lighter moments, too. "Brand of the Beast" and "Count Me Out" cross new school metal grooves with hip-hop breaks and a cleaner vocal delivery; they're big and brutal, but there's a funky vibe that's infectious and fun. "Freedom of Choice" actually slows down the electronics to a tempo approaching mellow, though the staccato vocals and sharp guitar riffs give the song its requisite edge, and "Few Things to Share" is one of the album's slowest tracks as well as its darkest, vocals snarled over a languid but oppressive rhythm section. With an aesthetic that draws on aggressive breakbeat and jungle rhythms as well as unapologetically metal guitar riffs, this is an album that manages to appeal in equal measure to drum 'n' bass and hard rock fans; it will especially appeal to fans of the new breed of industrial metal represented by groups like Rabbit Junk." -GRAVECONCERNSEZINE.COM
"For those who don�t know the Canadian D-Trash Records yet, be careful because this label only signs very hard, brute and sonic punks. Terms like hardcore aren�t far away, but defining the sound of The Swiss Matamachete is a hard piece of cake! There�s a real important mishmash of ideas, which can be compared to an offspring of bands like Type O�Negative, NIN and Public Enemy, but more furious, faster and definitely punk-noise-like. It might sound like a cheap improvisation and a brute production, but I�ve been literally surprised by the impressive qualitative level of the global production from this album. It only proves that a band dealing with a harsh and noisy style of music can also take care for a professional recording with a great production work. Musical wise get ready for some terrific and tympana-damaging assaults while 2 singers are acting like devils. Matamachete is a heavy piece of dynamite that will come to blow your head away� in the purest tradition of their label!
(DP:6)DP." -SIDE-LINE.COM
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